ASK.COM: Jeeves is ALIVE!

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Originally Published on: May 24, 2005 @ 16:29

Ask Jeeves.

Much is made of the supposedly artificial intelligence of the Ask Jeeves search engine. The engine is designed so that you may ask it a simple question in English and receive via a AI algorithm a list of web pages relevant to the query.

I have always been interested in exactly how intelligent the system was and so decided to interview the search engine as though it was a person and find out!

The rules: I have entered the questions as they appear here. I have noted down Jeeves’s answers and which section of the results the answer came from. I have only used the top web entries from the web page hits and where I think pertinent cut and paste in the entire result. Under some of them I have added some comments in Bold Italic.

THESE ARE REAL ASK.COM ANSWERS!

Enjoy!

Q. Afternoon Jeeves how are you?

Jeeves: (Recommended results) I’m fine, how are you?

Q. Me? I’m cool, just drinking some coffee.

Jeeves:

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